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Turn Down the Pain Volume

October 1, 2009 • By Daniel J. Clauw, MD

Fibromyalgia’s evolution from discrete entity to prototypical central pain syndrome... [Read More]

Diagnosis: Myopathy

July 1, 2009 • By Edward C. Smith, MD, and Dwight D. Koeberl, MD, PhD

Presentation and evaluation of metabolic causes... [Read More]

Vasculitis

June 1, 2009 • By Gary S. Hoffman, MD

A New perspective on when and how it begins... [Read More]

PQRI Now Includes RA Measures Group

May 1, 2009 • By Salahuddin Kazi, MD, Melesia Tillman, CPC, CCP, and Amy S. Miller

In 2008, the only Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) measure that applied to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was disease-modifying antirheumatic drug therapy. For 2009, five new RA measures were included, for a total of six measures in the new RA Measures Group. The five new measures were developed in 2008 by the National Committee for Quality Assurance in collaboration with the ACR and the American Medical Association’s Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement and were subsequently adopted by Medicare.... [Read More]